Word: gal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a special "super-engine" of 21 h. p., or for $695 with the standard Baby Austin engine which develops 17 h. p. (rated for tax purposes at 7.8 h. p.). In cheapest standard roadster form, the Austin is offered in Manhattan for $495, with 40 mi. per gal. promised. Efforts to manufacture Austins in the U. S. miserably failed (TIME, Sept. 2, 1935), because they obviously cannot be sold to the U. S. masses in competition with U. S. cars of similar price, but the importers last week hoped to do a brisk trade in "Nippy Sports" as novelties...
Schenley Distillers made $1,716,847 in the third quarter, $4,782,795 for the nine months, a slightly better showing for the long period than in 1935. This year Schenley expanded capacity from 27,000,000 gal. of hard liquor annually to 41,400,000 gal...
Factory. Each ton of soybeans yields 30 gal. of oil and 1,600 lb. of meal. Industry takes the oil and the meal, uses one or both to make glue, paints, combs, candles, radios, buttons, axlegrease, paper size, explosives, linoleum, oilcloth, printer's ink, billiard balls, rubber substitutes, cigaret holders, Christmas tree ornaments...
...under sponsorship of Manhattan's Chase National Bank, Chicago's First National. With each concert, the bankers will give what they consider an instructive talk. Beside the metropolitan giants, other banks in Des Moines, Detroit Cincinnati, other cities, will help pay for propaganda, Poet & Peasant and Fin gal's Cave...
Among liquor men the conviction has lately grown that whiskey's necessary overproduction has reached its limit. With an all-time record output of 22,000,000 gal. in May, U. S. whiskey stocks for the first time mounted above the pre-Prohibition peak to a total of 281,208,000 gal. At the same time, withdrawals of whiskey for consumption declined 5,390,000 gal. in April to 4,760,000 gal. in May. At this rate, total whiskey reserves at the end of 1936 might be as high as 380,000,000 gal...